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Algeria resurrecting major graft probes as police raid Sonatrach and Public Works ministry and ban hundreds from leaving the countryF

The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019 - On 7 April 2019, the Algerian security authorities established a new list of 378 individuals banned from the leaving the country. This new list brings the total number of banned individuals to 540. The list includes former...

Algeria: Major shake-up of the Algerian intelligence services underwayF

The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019: Several senior officers who directed various intelligence agencies during the last few years of President Bouteflika's reign have been dismissed, and there are many more to come. The move is meant to purge the intelligence...

With the ousting of Bouteflika and al-Bashir, should others be concerned?F

April 11, 2019 - Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan's Omar...

Libya’s Escalating Civil War: The Oil DimensionF

By Rauf Mammadov* and Theodore Karasik** - 10 April 2019: Libya’s civil war intensified this month after General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied with the eastern government based in Tobruk—the House of Representatives...